this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
61 points (96.9% liked)

Canada

9702 readers
698 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It can be both lack of available shelter, and people refusing shelter as well. They aren't mutually exclusive. From the article:

"It's been hard calling central intake for people," she said. "Since September... it hasn't been an ideal situation. Sometimes you have to call all day, like three, four, five phone calls and then you might be able to find a bed for someone."

So there's no available bed for most of the day until there is for someone after the 5th try. There might be a bed available but it's in Etobicoke when the person and their stuff is in Moss Park.

Even if you go by just numbers 9000 spots isn't enough for 10 000 homeless in Toronto. But even more than that, the ability to get a person there, to keep them from smoking a cig inside or taking rec drugs in the room, needing a coffee, getting stressed in unfamiliar situations in some cases, or they have a dog with them. There are so many things going on that mean that just having "enough beds" isn't enough to get them shelter and the dignity they deserve as a person.